Today, Google offers a host of services that guarantee multiple tools to all its users in order to make their lives easier and ensure that they can manage various activities through mechanisms with which counts the famous technology company. In this sense, one of the services that are mostly used by Google, is about Gmail that from 2014, became the main email alternative , thus displacing the assistance of Hotmail, Yahoo and others also recognized.
This, thanks to Google Gmail is considered one of the most powerful and best built tools on web platforms and from there, its users can have several advantages. Among them, we highlight the benefit of being able to work without an Internet connection , send messages from one tab to another, share default responses, optimize the security of your email account , use labels, have the facility to keep the inbox clean always , send all kinds of files without inconvenience and if that were not enough, have the possibility to use more than two accounts at the same time .
In this sense, using two accounts at the same time through Gmail is a great help for many users who run businesses or prefer to keep up-to-date personal and work email. Having in addition, the simplicity of changing the one they want to a default account , that is, to work with one of them as the principal and thus have great simplicity to manage the emails you want. In effect, below we will inform you about the procedures to be done to add other accounts to your Google account and mark one as determined , easily.
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How to add other accounts to your Google account?
To begin, we have chosen to provide you with a timely solution if you are one of the people who commonly, usually handles several emails at the same time and you want to make this process simpler .
Since, nothing better than have all your email accounts in the same tray and in this way, be able to perfectly manage each of the messages you receive.
Luckily, this procedure is quite simple with the help of the functions that Google contains and to do it, you must perform the following step by step :
- Logically, you must access the official Gmail page to proceed to enter your Gmail email account along with your password.
- Then, being in the Gmail email, you have to go to the option “ Settings ” and enter this section. This is located at the top of the window (below your profile picture) and is represented by a gear icon that contains several options.
- Once the pop-up window has been displayed, go to “ Settings ” that allows you to change and manage everything regarding the email account. Do not be confused with “ Inbox Settings “, as it is different.
- Now, you will be redirected to a new window that contains several options at the top. There, you have to click on “ Accounts and import ” in order to add other accounts.
- At this point, start the process to associate another account that can be Hotmail, Outlook, Yahoo , etc. To do this, start by clicking on “ Import mail and contacts ”.
- Since then, a small window will open where you must enter the email account you want to import or associate, to click on the “ Continue ” button. This step is identified as “ Sign in with your other email account.”
- With this, the service will issue an announcement stating that you must sign in to the email account you provided in the previous step , in order to click on the “ Continue . ” Since only in this way is it possible to achieve synchronization of both accounts.
- Subsequently, the pop-up window that generated Gmail will be in a verification process to synchronize both accounts. This may take a few minutes .
- Finally, the same window will show you a button that says “ Start import ”, which is extremely important to press for the Gmail service to start importing your emails, contacts and all new mail from the next 30 days , automatically. Which, can take up to hours .
- Later, when you want to see the email you have synchronized , you just have to go to the left side of the window and press “More” to open the section drop-down menu.
Steps to change and mark a Gmail account as default to log in Google
Another of the most common interests of Google Gmail users, is to change and mark an email account as default . Fortunately, these procedures also are completely simple to perform , thanks to the operation and service tools.
In this regard, it should be noted that when talking about a default Gmail account, refers to the main account of this email . That is, your default YouTube page, the one you use for the Google Play Store or calendar events and all these kinds of services.
Then, the steps to follow to change a Gmail account and mark another as default to log in to Google, are:
- To start, go to the Gmail inbox , of course you must ensure that is the default account .
- Once you’re inside the default account, go to your profile photo located in the upper right corner of the screen (in the inbox, precisely) and click on the icon .
- When you click on that icon, will open a drop-down menu where you must click on the option “Log out” at the end. To close the default account and even all accounts that are linked to the service.
- With this, Gmail will redirect you to its main section , where it shows all the accounts it contains. There, you must click on your new default account, that is, on which you have decided as a favorite. Then proceed to enter your password. This way, you will already be marking it as default .
- To finish, click on the “Sign in” button and in this way, you will have already logged in with what is now your default account to Access all Google services with it. As you can see, it’s very simple.
